As with all risk factors, these do not cause Anorexia:
they add an element of risk and may act in synergy with other risk factors
or susceptibility genes. Their risk promoting ability may be increased
or decreased by these other factors. These risk factors, and the genes,
form the components of a puzzle, whose assembly will one day alow us to
see the whole picture

Eating disorder patients appear to be more frequently
conceived during the transitional stages of the ovulatory pattern due
to seasonal preovulatory overripeness ovopathy and less frequently at
the ovulatory peaks due to seasonal optimally ripened oocytes Jongbloet
et al, 2005

A symbiotically close mother-daughter relationship
with elements of aggression was noted in anorexicx children. In the
fathers, the autoritarian-dominant type predominated.Bonenberger
and Klosinski 1988